Professorship for Governance and Sustainability
Organisational unit: Section
Organisation profile
The focus of our work is on participatory, cooperative and network-like communication and decision-making processes in the context of sustainable development. Problem-oriented, inter- and transdisciplinary research investigates structures, processes, context and results of governance. Our activities contribute to current conceptual debates and develop new methods of empirical research with a focus on the integration of knowledge through comparative and meta-analytical methods.
Topics
- The effectiveness of participation in environmental decision-making processes
- Collective leraning and social network analysis
- Environmental and sustainability conflicts: mediation and consensus building
- Issues of complexity and uncertainty os sustainability
- Environmental information: monitoring and evaluation
- Global and multi-level governance and institutional scaling processes
- Public discourse and the role of the media
- Transformation and decay of social-ecological systems
- water resources management, coastal protection and management, land use and reuse of brownfield sites.
- External workshops, courses, seminars
Democracy and Intergenerational Justice: Overcoming Harmful Short-termism Through New Institutions?
Jonathan Matthias Hoffmann (Organiser), Gah-Kai Leung (Organiser) & Michael Rose (Organiser)
08.09.2020 → 09.09.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Doctoral Colloquium of the Leibniz Research Alliance on Energy Transitions
Pim Derwort (Speaker)
23.04.2018 → 24.04.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
ETH Zürich World Food System Center Summer School - 2013
Sarah Velten (Participant)
11.08.2013 → 25.08.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Public Participation and River Basin Management in the WFD - Taking Stock and Looking Forwards - 2010
Mariele Evers (Organiser) & Leonie Lange (Organiser)
01.09.2010 → 03.09.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Sustainability Solutions Initiative - From Knowledge to Action
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
18.10.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
UNLEASH 2018
Pim Derwort (Participant)
30.05.2018 → 06.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop “Governance for Sustainable Development – Steering in Contexts of Ambivalence, Uncertainty and Distributed Control” - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.02.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
WZB-Kongress „Bürgergesellschaft – Wunsch und Wirklichkeit“ - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
19.10.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- Guest lectures
Die Zukunft gestalten - Transdisziplinäre Projektarbeit
Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker) & Judith Kahle (Speaker)
10.2016 → 03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Gender und Diversity: Welche Rolle spielt Vielfalt in der transdisziplinären Nachhaltigkeitsforschung?
Judith Kahle (Speaker) & Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker)
01.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
How effective is participation in public environmental decision-making? Early findings from a meta analysis of 250 case studies
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.08.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Komplexe Systeme transformieren I - Interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit (Nachhaltiger Konsum)
Matthias Bergmann (Speaker), Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker) & Judith Kahle (Speaker)
04.04.2016 → 20.05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
The Impact of Television Program on Individual Action for Climate Protection regarding Adolescents in Germany
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Umweltbewusstsein und Medien (Media and Environmental Awareness): Können Filme unser Alltagshandeln verändern? (Do media make a change?)
Gesa Lüdecke (Lecturer)
01.12.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
- Consultancy
- Bodies of public institutions
Earth System Governance Taskforce on Knowledge Cumulation (External organisation)
Jens Newig (Office)
2021 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
- Leuphana academic councils and committees
German National Academic Foundation (External organisation)
Jens Newig (Office)
2014 → 2022Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Graduate School (Organisational unit)
Sarah Velten (Member)
01.04.2013 → 15.12.2014Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Institute of Sustainability Governance (Organisational unit)
Jens Newig (Chair)
2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Sustainability (Organisational unit)
Jens Newig (Office)
2022 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees